Congressman, public
official, and lawyer from Mississippi. Correspondence, drafts of writings,
speeches, reports, notes, clippings, scrapbooks, printed material, and other
papers relating to Collins's service in Congress, especially to his
introduction of the bill authorizing the Library of Congress acquisition of the
Otto Vollbehr Collection of Incunabula. Also documents Collins's work
pertaining to the mechanization of the U.S. Army, the career of Mississippi
politician Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, and the claims of an individual for
enrollment as a Choctaw Indian.